This may be an unpopular answer but it haunts me personally when the question comes up... Are people with mental illness dangerous?

It haunts me because my great grandmother suffered from mental illness - she shot and killed her husband and five of her eight children. There was an article written in Women's true crime stories giving her account of what happened. It was very hard to read, but I realized she was not evil or mean, she was psychotic at a time when there was no treatment available. It states she went to Houston the largest city near her seeking treatment.

She spent over forty years in prison occasionally being sent to Rusk mental hospital when she became psychotic. Many of my relatives have said she was one of the nicest people you would ever meet.

I suffered my own psychotic break at age thirty-nine, I was hospitalized, put on medication I have been stable for six years. (meaning not manic, psychotic nor suicidally depressed) though I am melancholy & my energy remains low. It was an eye opening experience.

So my answer would be yes, people who experience psychosis can be dangerous, it would be a hard to deny having lost six members of my family.

I am thankful - everyday - there is medicine to treat this illness.